Andrew Jackson Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• When you get in debt you become a slave.

  Andrew Jackson

  Debt, Slave

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1931). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: 1833-1838”

• Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No -- we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.

  Andrew Jackson

  Military, Fighting, Son

• Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when you get in debt you become a slave. Therefore I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

  Andrew Jackson

  Mean, Rainy Day, Men

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1931). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: 1833-1838”

• The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Rights, Government

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1937). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814”

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